Bucharest North railway station
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București Gara de Nord
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| Location | Piața Gării de Nord, Bucharest, Romania | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Owned by | CFR | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Bucharest-Constanța Bucharest-Craiova Bucharest-Ploiești Bucharest-Pitești Bucharest-Ruse M1 Line (Bucharest Metro) M4 Line (Bucharest Metro) |
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| Platforms | 8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 14 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | terminal station | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parking | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1872 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bucharest North railway station (Romanian: București Gara de Nord) is the main railway station in Bucharest and the largest railway station in Romania. The vast majority of mainline trains to and from Bucharest originate from Gara de Nord.
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History
It was initially named Gara Târgoviștei, after the road nearby, Calea Târgoviștei ("Târgoviște Road", nowadays Calea Griviței).
The first railways between Roman - Galați - Bucharest - Pitești were built in 1872.
The station and its surroundings were heavily bombed by the Allies in April 1944 during a campaign aimed at the Axis supply lines, since the station played an important part in the Romanian railway network and was the main departure point for troops headed to the Eastern Front.
Current status
There are currently 14 tracks and 8 platforms.
As of 2009, Gara de Nord served about 200 trains, including domestic trains operated by Căile Ferate Române, Regiotrans and Trans Feroviar calatori as well international trains to Hungary - Budapest, Bulgaria - Sofia, Varna and Burgas, Republic of Moldova - Chișinău, Ukraine - Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk and Chernivtsi, Austria - Vienna, Turkey - Istanbul, Russia - Moscow and Saratov, Belarus - Minsk.
The station is served by several bus lines as well as the Gara de Nord metro station. Also, the station is connected by CFR train to Henri Coandă International Airport.
Distances from other railway stations
Romania
- Alexandria: 133 km
- Arad (via Brașov): 620 km
- Arad (via Craiova): 604 km
- Bacău: 302 km
- Baia Mare: 624 km
- Brașov: 166 km
- Brăila: 199 km
- Buzău: 128 km
- Cluj-Napoca: 497 km
- Constanța: 225 km
- Craiova: 209 km
- Deva: 455 km
- Drobeta Turnu Severin: 323 km
- Galați: 229 km
- Iași: 406 km
- Oradea: 650 km
- Ploiești: 59 km
- Piatra Neamț: 362 km
- Pitești: 108 km
- Sibiu: 315 km
- Suceava: 447 km
- Târgoviște: 80 km
- Timișoara: 533 km
- Tulcea: 334 km
Europe
- Belgrad: 709 km
- Berlin: 1,900 km
- Budapest: 872 km
- Chişinău: 529 km
- Istanbul: 1,120 km
- Frankfurt am Main: 1,900 km
- Kiev: 1,227 km
- Sofia: 539 km
- Venice: 1,723 km
- Wien: 1,145 km
See also
External links
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